Show council holds first meeting of new year accept marshals resignation Ee from health board discuss light Ligh tand and water delinquents and cites financial position along with other business matters when the city council met at their first regular ine meeting eting ol of the new year at which only the tha mayor and three councilmen were present the first thing to face ace them was the reorganization organization re of the health board city marshal harrell dalton handed in his resignation as a member ol of that board and stated that his 1115 Te leaon aOn tor for so doing was that lie he approve of the way things were being done he asserted that there as much harmony among the members ol of the board as there should be and therefore refused to continue as a member any longer clefford Clet tord evans another member of the board met with the council and stated that he was of the same opinion as the marshal as to the way things were being done but that he would continue on and do the best he be could it they wanted him to the marshal was released from the board while evans evana was retained for or the present A special meeting ot of the cauncil will be held right away to consider new appointments to the board mayor hatch called the councils attention to the delinquent dein dela quent lights light and water rentals situation again and stated that in his opinion the government would be demand demanding ilig that this mess be cleared up lip the money due the city has reached an enormous anon noua amount not only from people who are having a hard time to pay but from people who should be able to take lake care ot of their bills regularly it was decided to have notices sent out demanding that people pay all current bills from now on an in addition to pay a certain amount of the past due account or their service would be discontinued it was left up to the auditing committee to make up lip a form to be sent out to the delinquent users the discussion ot of the above matter brought to light the financial condition of the city treasury K R M benson aa treasurer reported that although the city may get gel through 1937 alright the next three years would find its finances strained to the limit in 1938 and on through AO to 1940 many of 0 the cites bonds tall fall due and mr air benson states that money in the sinking funds was not adequate to take care of it it was the opinion of all members present that a percent collection of light and water rentals al would have to be demanded in order to relieve that situation as much as possible the names of clefford evans gates gales burt and clarence benson were submitted and okey oklyed as foremen for future IV P A projects sponsored by the city the community recreation committee was given permission to use water front from the tha city system to spray streets tor for coasting lanes tor for children so long as there was plenty of water in the system some other minor matters were acted upon and the bills approved before the meeting adjourned jour ned |